** Shares of IREN IREN.O down 6.5% at $57.70 in extended trading as bitcoin miner looks to raise capital
**
Australia-based IREN announces private offering of
$875 mln
convertible bonds due 2031
** Co intends to use net proceeds for general corp purposes, working capital
** It also plans to use a portion of net proceeds to pay for capped calls, derivative transactions to offset potential dilution
** IREN shares on Tues closed up 6.8% at $61.68 after co inked new cloud services contracts for Nvidia NVDA.O GPUs
** In Aug, co secured Nvidia's preferred partner status
** IREN has about $16.8 bln market cap
** Through Tues close, shares up 523% YTD
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
((lance.tupper@tr.com 1-646-279-6380))